This is a long short story.- - -Two years stuck on the shopping channel. Sixty years stuck with each other. Tonight, the storm changes everything.Nancy Howard knows her husband hid that remote control. For two years, they've been prisoners of the shopping channel, trapped between miracle mops and revolutionary vacuum cleaners while their real war wages in silence.Gary denies everything, of course. He's been denying things f...

This is a short story.- - -In a world where order equals survival, procurement manager Beatriz Montejo faces an unexpected revolt...…by her meticulously chosen soaps.Beatriz runs the procurement department at St. Augustine Memorial Hospital with military precision, finding order in everything from her color-coordinated wardrobe to her perfectly arranged soap collection. But when her precious vanilla soap betrays her...

This is a short story.- - -In a small town where whispered rumors flow like water, two women are locked in a seventeen-year dance of grief, guilt, and unspoken truths.Marina measures her life in seventeens: the number of cracks etched in her pristine pool, her age when her Olympic dreams were shattered, and the years spent watching her silent neighbor through windows that reveal too much and too little.Seventeen. All, seventeen....

Delicious gastronomic allure. Lush supernatural horror. The terrifying freedom of creating without limits.- - -Children's book illustrator Penelope Shaw has mastered the art of making hunger look cute—until someone offers to feed her for real…Finally! Penelope's crush invited her to dinner at Mugen, an impossible-to-book omakase restaurant where "infinity meets intention." She arrives expecting romance to bloom, and also to get insp...

When you hear music no one else can hear, are you gifted, cursed, or simply attuned?Lyra Calloway hears what others can't, from flowers that play piccolos to skyscrapers that pulse with jazz. This gift/curse was supposed to be her secret—until a chance encounter pushes her into the spotlight.As the music swells and quiets according to its own unpredictable score, Lyra faces her meteoric rise and catastrophic fall. In the spaces between the notes, will she f...

This is a short story.- - -In the cutthroat world of academia, Professor Yuna Collins navigates the treacherous waters of identity, belonging, and authenticity.When her colleagues descend upon her apartment for an impromptu academic gathering, they discover her library—a collection that betrays what they see as her fatal flaw: the audacity to exist between categories. Trapped between her wealthy international background and her desire for g...

When Melody Trow rebuffs the advances of the Marchett Estate Bailiff's son, her life in Emmett Wood with her grandfather comes to an abrupt end. A chance meeting with Abbot Cranshaw just when she needs his help, sets Melody on a new path where she proves her worth to the Cranshaw family. As her life appears to be settled, a vindictive act pushes her further into the life of the Cranshaws. Melody finds herself having to choose between stifling security or relative freedom when the Cranshaw ...

Nestled between Devon and Dorset on the south coast of England, for the people of Wynn Vale time passes slowly.Argus Sansom is dead, leaving the Green Cygnet Inn to his adult children. His son, Magnes, is missing presumed dead in France. His youngest daughter Nell dreams of leaving the Vale and getting on in life. Molly, at twenty-five and the middle child, is determined to run the Inn despite plenty of opposition.Over the course of a year, follow Molly and Nell as they nav...